Jürgen Prochnow
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Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jürgen Prochnow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
as André Vernet
Dune (1984)
as Duke Leto Atreides
Das Boot (1981)
as Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
Air Force One (1997)
as Alexander Radek
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
as Woodsman
The English Patient (1996)
as Major Muller
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Judge Griffin
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
as Maxwell Dent
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
as Tobias
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Sutter Cane
The Replacement Killers (1998)
as Michael Kogan
The Seventh Sign (1988)
as David Bannon
A Hidden Life (2019)
as Major Schlegel
Body of Evidence (1993)
as Dr. Alan Paley
Robin Hood (1991)
as Sir Miles Folcanet
Primeval (2007)
as Jacob Krieg
Beerfest (2006)
as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
Remember (2015)
as Rudy Kurlander #4
The Keep (1983)
as Captain Klaus Woermann
The Last Rifleman (2023)
as Friedrich Mueller
Wing Commander (1999)
as Cdr. Paul Gerald
House of the Dead (2003)
as Kirk
The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
as Jensen
Company of Heroes (2013)
as Luca Gruenewald
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
as Woodsman
Sinners and Saints (2010)
as Mr. Rhykin
Damascus Cover (2017)
as Franz Ludin
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
as Ludwig Götten
Devil's Paradise (1987)
as Escher
Esther (1999)
as Haman
Final Ascent (2000)
as Paul
A Dry White Season (1989)
as Captain Stolz
DNA (1997)
as Dr. Carl Wessinger
Interceptor (1992)
as Phillips
Poison (2000)
as Carl Krieger
Last Run (2001)
as Andrus Bukarin
Forbidden (1984)
as Fritz Friedländer
Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
as The Mage
The Fourth War (1990)
as Col. Valachev
The Guardian Angel (—)
as Albert Klosser
Terminus (1987)
as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
Nanking (2007)
as John Rabe
The Elite (2001)
as Avi
Shirin's Wedding (1976)
as Aida
Baltic Storm (2003)
as Erik Westermark
The Final Journey (2017)
as Eduard
Heaven's Fire (1999)
as Quentin Darby
Heart of America (2003)
as Harold Lewis
Kill Cruise (1990)
as The Skipper
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
as Detective Kelso
Chain Reaction (2006)
as Police Man
Kotte (1979)
as Günther Kotte
Jack the Dog (2001)
as Klaus
Dark Asylum (2001)
as Dr. Fallon
The Last Stop (2000)
as Fritz
Real Men (2019)
as Himself - Actor
The Dark Side of the Moon (2016)
as Pius Ott
Knast (1972)
as Roloff
Hurricane Smith (1992)
as Charlie Dowd
Love is Forever (1983)
as General Siegfried Kaplan
Unternehmer (1970)
as Arnold
Fesseln (1995)
as Günther
Gunblast Vodka (2001)
as Sacha Roublev
Lie Down with Lions (1994)
as Marteau
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
as Man at the Meeting Table
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' (1995)
as Himself
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
as Hehler
The Cry of Love (1997)
as Holger
Schroeder's Wonderful World (2007)
as John Gregory
The Consequence (1977)
as Martin Kurath
Guns of Honor (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
as Adam Berwid
Old Agent Men (2017)
as Kern
The Last Border (1993)
as Duke
Human Bomb (1998)
as Gerhardt Dach
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune (2021)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Spear of Destiny (2010)
as Baron Von Haan
Half Brothers (2016)
as Herr Dryser
Killing Cars (1986)
as Ralph Korda
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
as Carl Morgan
Der Fall Lucona (1993)
as Jorunalist Strasser
Der blonde Affe (1999)
as Jan Vleuten
The Man Inside (1990)
as Günter Wallraff
A Handful of Water (2020)
as Konrad
From China with Love (1998)
as Paul Konen
The Poet (2003)
as Vashon
Davon stirbt man nicht (2002)
as Everett Burns
The Fall (1999)
as József Kovács
Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013)
as Ernst Blessing
Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
as Le baron Hengen
Destination Dune (1983)
as Self
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 (1999)
as Hans Hagemann
Hans in Luck (1976)
as Hans Schmidtke
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025)
as Self
Ohne Gnade (2013)
as Helmutchen
Ohne einander (2007)
as Ernest
Trigger Fast (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Blitz (1985)
as Ralph Korda
La conjura de El Escorial (2008)
as Espinosa
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
as Franz Blum
See Arnold Run (2005)
as Arnold Schwarzenegger
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)
as Self - Das Boot Actor
So weit das Auge reicht (1980)
as Alexander Späh
Amigo - Dead on Arrival (2010)
as Fredo Kovacs
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)
as Self
Tödliche Wahl (1995)
as Alex Bronner
Operation Ganymed (1977)
as Oss
The Other Side of the Law (1994)
as Simon McQuarie
One or the Other of Us (1974)
as Bernd Ziegenhals
Die Wildnis (1993)
as Brenner
The Cop & the Girl (1985)
as Der Bulle
Ein schmaler Grat (2013)
as Uwe Wolfmann
War and Peace (1982)
as Kevin
Oko ve zdi (2009)
Actor
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck (2020)
as Wilhelm Schürmann
Zoff (1972)
as Joky
Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005) (2005)
as Self
Auf Befehl erschossen (1972)
as Franz Sass
Die Schuld der Erben (2012)
as Kurt Hanson
The Schoolmaster (1990)
as Rozinsky